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Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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